Comrade Dzerzhinsky,

Are you familiar with this matter?90

I am told that there was likely a malicious denunciation here—slander by some aggrieved or vengeful person.

If you are not familiar with it, please have someone report to me—someone from the responsible comrades, entirely reliable—who knows this matter well and has personally studied the entire case.

Please return this with a brief assessment.

With communist greetings

Lenin

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* See the present volume, document 97. Ed.

Written July 30, 1921

First printed in 1945

in Lenin Miscellany XXXV

Printed from the typescript